Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Life is a one-way journey toward the unknown. So make it an exciting awesome adventure.

Mother are wife are saints, If they are not together

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship.

Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.